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Throughout the platform, pink, round icons are events relating to individuals:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Document amendment

Copy a proposal

Import a proposal

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal

Adopt a proposal

Other

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect
how a committee does its work:

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate a motion

Explain Page

This page lets you explore the way that a document is negotiated.

Along the top of this page are the events that occurred in this committee session.

If you select an event here, the display underneath will provide the following information:

On the left are lists of the current documents under consideration by the committee at this moment and all of the amendments to these documents that have been suggested. Clicking on these will bring upthe draft text of that amendment or document, if it can be calculated, as it exists in the context of thismoment.

In the centre of the screen you can see the proposed effect of a particular amendment or the affect of a particular vote. The tabs let you select either the agreed text of the base document (the 'agreed text'), the text of any intermediate amendments (the 'intermediate text')that are the parents of this one (these may or may not have been agreed) and the text suggested by theselected proposal.

The 'Markup' display shows the difference between the intermediate text and the proposed text by showing deletionsin red highlighting with a strike-through and additions as blue highlights with underlining.

On the right, various tools let you explore the significance of this moment. The document complexity displays show you a representation of all of the proposals and votes that have led to the document having this particulartext. You can click on them to navigate to those moments.

Resources and Commentaries allow you to explore any additional materials stored about this moment in more depth.